Norihiro Kato

Norihiro Kato became a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in the fall of 2013. Mr. Kato is a literary critic and a professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he teaches modern Japanese literature, postwar Japanese thought and cultural history.

Born in 1948 in Yamagata Prefecture, Mr. Kato graduated with a degree in French literature from Tokyo University in 1972. After working at the National Diet Library, he became a professor at Meiji Gakuin University in 1985, where he taught until he moved to Waseda in 2005.

Mr. Kato has published more than 30 books in Japanese, notably “In America’s Shadow” (1985) and “After the Defeat’ (winner of the Sei Ito literary prize, 1997), which dealt with critical issues in postwar Japanese thought, and two books about the works of the author Haruki Murakami: “The Haruki Murakami Yellow Pages,” parts 1 and 2 (1996 and 2004), and “Reading Haruki Murakami’s Short Stories in English, 1979-2011” (2011).

His other works include “Lectures on Linguistic Expression” (winner of the Shincho Gakugei Prize, 1996), “Leaving the Text Behind” and “The Future of the Novel” (both volumes awarded the Takeo Kuwabara prize for academic writing, 2004), “On the Absence of Japanese Thought” (1999) and “Self-Portrait of the Japanese” (2000).

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